Achievements:

As an Industry representative, AISSIA regularly negotiates with the Indian Government to secure concessions for the Industry.Some of the major accomplishments are:

1. Exemption from central excise tax: AISSIA proposed and convinced to free Stailness steel utensils, cutlery, kitchenware and other household articles from central excise, because these are mass consumer products which are produced by small scale firms.

2. Reduction of Sales Tax from 12% to 4%.

3. The wastage norms were revised to reasonable levels. Earlier they were fixed at a very low level, which was adversely affecting exports.